Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

¹¹“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. ^fReturn now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings ^ggood.” ’ ”

God’s Warning Rejected

¹²And they said, ^h“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one ⁴obey the ⁱdictates ⁵of his evil heart.”

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord:

^j“Ask now among the Gentiles,

Who has heard such things?

The virgin of Israel has done ^ka very horrible thing.

¹⁴Will a man ⁶leave the snow water of Lebanon,

Which comes from the rock of the field?

Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?

¹⁵“Because My people have forgotten ^lMe,

They have burned incense to worthless idols.

And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,

From the ^mancient paths,

To walk in pathways and not on a highway,

¹⁶To make their land ⁿdesolate and a perpetual ^ohissing;

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished

And shake his head.

^17pI will scatter them ^qas with an east wind before the enemy;

^rI will ⁷show them the back and not the face

In the day of their calamity.”